For the price of a trip to the movies, the entire family can enjoy Santa Cruz Symphony!
On Sunday, March 2, join Maestro Daniel Stewart, beloved Master of Ceremonies Omari Tau, Santa Cruz Symphony, Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony, Cabrillo Youth Chorus, El Sistema, Kuumbwa Jazz Honor Band, and Esperanza del Valle Folklórico for our annual Family Concert! You may even know some of the performers.
This is the perfect way to enjoy an affordable family outing as Santa Cruz Symphony presents Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf alongside these community partners.
Our Family Concert is the finale of weeks of incredible educational experiences. Santa Cruz Symphony is a partner orchestra with Carnegie Hall for its Link Up program, in which students grades 4–5 at dozens of schools learn to sing and play an instrument in their classrooms. This year, kids discover how music creates patterns of sound and silence that are expressive and exciting in a program called The Orchestra Rocks!
During the week before the Sunday Family Concert, students from local schools bring their instruments and voices to perform with Santa Cruz Symphony from their seats at a series of rousing weekday Youth Concerts. For many students, this is their first time experiencing live orchestral music!
Finally, at the Family Concert on Sunday, March 2, the whole community has the chance to see and hear this year's Link Up program performed by Santa Cruz Symphony and our community partners, followed by the timeless classic Peter and the Wolf.
The Family Concert is a vibrant musical event with entertainment for all ages. Bring the kids—we promise they'll love it, and so will you!